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BED.

APPLICATION IILE D APR.26. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FR ANGIS GALE, or WATERvILLE, QUEBEC, CANADA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented "J an. "8,1-1907.

Application filed April 26, 1906. Serial No. 313,743.

Twallwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANois G. GALE, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Waterville, Province of Quebec, Canada, haveinvented an Improvement in Beds, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying-drawings, is a specification, likenumerals on the drawings representing like-parts.

This invention relates to beds, and especially to that class of beds inwhich the head end of the woven-wire mattress may be elevated more orless, whereby the head and body of the person occupying the bed may beraised into a reclining or sitting position.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a novel construction inwhich approximately the same tension on the wovenwire fabric may bemaintainedat all times regardless of the position of the adjustable headend of the fabric, all aswill be more fully hereinafter described andthen pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a bed embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with one corner brokenoFut; and Fig. 3 is a section on the line as ac,

The bed-frame comprises the foot-frame 3, the head-frame 4, and the siderails 5. The wire fabric on which the mattress is supported isdesignated by 6, and it may be of any suitable or usual construction. Asherein shown, it is fastened at one end to a crossrail 7 of thefoot-frame, and at its other end it is carried by a swinging framepivoted to .the side rails 5, whereby the head end of the wire fabric 6may be raised or lowered by the swinging movement of the frame.

The swinging frame I have herein illustrated is substantially V shaped,it comprising two V-shaped end members, each having two arms 8 and 9,which are secured together in any suitable way. Each end member ispivoted at its apex to a side rail 5,

v as at 10, and the arms 8 of the two end members are connected togetherby a suitable end rail 11, and the arms 9 are connected by a similar endrail 12.

The wire fabric 6 is divided on a transverse line 13, whichsubstantially coincides with the line of the pivotal points 10 of theswinging frame, and one part 14 of the fabric extends from the line 13to the end rail 11 and another part 15 of the fabric extends from saidline 13 to the end rail 12, the two 1 1 and 12 in any suitable way.

parts 14 and 15 being connectedtothe rails When the swinging frame is inits lowered position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, the part 14 ofthe divided end of the, fabric occupies substantially the samehorizontal plane as the main body of the fabric. By turning the swingingframe about its pivot, however, the part 14 of the wire fabric is throwninto an inclined position, depending upon the-position of the swingingframe, and if aperson is occupying the bed his head can be raised moreor less by thus swinging the frame, as will be obvious.

The swinging frame may be raised or lowered in any suitable way. A drumorspool 16 is j ournaled in bearings carried by the side rails 5, andcords 17 and 18 connect said drum with the end rails 1 1 and 12, saidcords being wound in an opposite direction on the drum, so that when thedrum is turned one cord is wound thereon and the other unwoundtherefrom. The drum may be turned by means of a removable crank 20(shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) and may be held in any adjustedposition by means of a suitable pawl 22 or in any other suitable way.

By making the wire fabric 6 with the two parts 14 and 15, each of whichis connected to the main body of the fabric along the line 13, an eventension maybe maintained on the main body of the fabric regardless ofthe position of the swinging frame, and, further, the movement of theframe does not throw the main body of the fabric out of its normalposition. The tension to which the fabric is subjected is transmitted toboth of the parts 14 and 15, at the head end thereof, and as these twoparts come together along a line which is substantially in line with thepivotal points 10 the swinging movement of the fabric to be raised ordepressed.

If desired, I may employ guide-e es 23, projecting from the side rails,and t ough which the edge, or a portion of the wire fabric 6, passes.

The side rails 5 are herein shown as tubular,

frame does not cause the main body of the device may be made withoutdeparting from the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bedstead comprising a foot-frame, a head-frame, side rails, aswinging frame pivoted to the side rails, said frame having twobranches, and a wire fabric divided at one end and secured to the twobranches of the I swinging frame.

2. A bedstead comprising a foot-frame, a head-frame and side rails, aV-shaped swinging frame pivoted at its apex to the side rails, a wirefabric secured at one end to the footframe of the bed, the other endbeing divided and one part being secured to each branch of the V-shapedframe.

3. A bedstead comprising a foot-frame, a head-frame and side rails, aV-shaped frame pivoted at its apex to the side rails, a wire fabricsecured to the foot-frame, said wire fabric being divided at one end ona line substantially in line with the pivots of the V- shaped frame, andone part of the divided end of the fabric being secured to one arm ofthe V-shaped frame, and the other part on the other arm thereof.

4. A bedstead comprising a foot-frame, a head-frame and side rails, aV-shaped swinging frame pivoted at its apex to the side rails, a wirefabric secured at one end to the footframe of the bed, the other endbeing divided and one part being secured to each branch of the V-shapedframe, and means to raise and lower the frame.

5. In a bedstead, a wire fabric secured at one end to the foot of thebed, said fabric being divided at the other end, and a swinging frame towhich the parts of the divided portion of the fabric are secured.

6. In a bed, a wire fabric divided at one end, and a swinging framehaving two branches to which the two parts of the divided fabric aresecured.

I11 testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS G. GALE.

Witnesses:

LoUIs 0. SMITH, MARGARET A. DUNN.

